[TofC cont.] Struggle and strife, social conditions of Mexican Americans, 1910-1917: Reverend Pedro Grado addresses El Congreso Mexicanista, 1911; Mexican immigrant women in El Paso, Texas / M.T. Garcia -- Mexican immigrant experience, 1917-1928: Anita Edgar Jones surveys Mexican life in Chicago, 1928; Mexican immigrants in the Midwest / Z. Vargas -- Mexican Americans in the Great Depression, 1929-1941 -- Mexican Americans and World War II, 1941-1945 -- Mexican Americans in the Cold War years, 1945-1960 -- Struggle for Chicano power, 1965-1974 -- Gaining of power, Chicano political empowerment, 1964-1980 -- Chicano experience in contemporary America.

"... documents the presence of the largest Spanish-speaking Latino subgroup in the United States while it marks its contributions to the nation's life. The primary aim of this volume is to illustrate the Chicano experience from as many vantage points as possible, and with as many Chicano views as possible. The documents and essays gathered [in this book] invite readers to see Chicanos in their everyday life and in their organizational life"--Pref.